t. america first? the nation learns that president trump pushed ukraine to investigate his 2020 rival and sources say the white house went to extraordinary lengths to limit access to the president's other calls with world leaders. >> it's a joke. impeachment for that? >> reporter: as president trump put his own political interests ahead of the country's. i'll speak exclusively with the top republican on the house oversight committee, congressman jim jordan, next. and building their case. house democrats make history and open an impeachment inquiry into president trump.

>> that is textbook abuse of power. >> but will the american people agree? democratic caucus chairman hakeem jeffries joins me next. plus, united front. every 2020 democrat now backs the impeachment inquiry. but just months before the voice are cast, how will the uproar in idential campaign.the presidential candidate cory booker joins me in moments. hello! i'm jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is in turmoil. the mood in washington is different this morning after a momentous week in american politics. and now congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are preparing for what could be the most bruising political fight in decades. the possible impeachment of a president. president trump is already in defense mode, railing on twitter about the quote, new and most

recent witch hunt, unquote, while speaker pelosi is defending her decision to move forward with an impeachment process after more than a year ago after saying such a thing could hurt the party politically. >> this would -- this pattern of behavior were to prevail, then it's over for the republic. we will have the equivalent of a monarchy. so the times have found us. >> the house of representatives is already moving forward quickly on the impeachment inquiry. subpoenas were issued on friday to secretary of state mike pompeo, demanding documents and witnesses related to the ukraine scandal, while the house intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff, tells cnn that hearings and more subpoenas could come as soon as this week. joining me now, a key member of speaker pelosi's leadership team, house democratic caucus chair, hakeem jeffries of new york. you said this week, quote, it's clear as day that donald trump betrayed his oath of office. does that mean you've already seen enough, even before

hearings, even before evidence, to support articles of impeachment? >> no, but i've seen enough to support an impeachment inquiry that has been launched by speaker pelosi with tremendous support within the house democratic caucus. there are three areas of real concern. president donald trump has been caught red-handed, with his hand in the taxpayer cookie jar, by withholding, without justification, $391 million in aid that had been approved on a bipartisan basis to the ukraine. the president has also been caught red-handed trying to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election by pressuring a foreign leader to target joe biden, an american citizen, for political gain. finally, the president has been caught red-handed trying to cover up all of this wrongdoing by moving the rough transcript of the july 25th phone call to a top-secret server that is used for covert operations, such as

the attack or effort to try to get osama bin laden. this is serious evidence of wrongdoing. the president has betrayed his oath of office. the president has abused his power in a matter that undermines our national security and the integrity of our elections. >> president trump's defending himself by pointing out that ukrainian prime minister zelensky said earlier this week that he did not feel pushed to investigate the bidens. take a listen to mr. zelensky. >> are you sure that we had, i think, good phone call. it was normal, we spoke about many things and -- so i think and you read it that nobody pushed me. >> in other words, no pressure. >> does that hurt your argument? >> not at all. the evidence of wroingdoing is clearly hiding in plain sight in the form of the july 25th rough

transcript. let's take a step back and look at what happened. the united states of america is the strongest country on earth. we are perhaps the only thing standing between vladimir putin and russia totally overrunning ukraine. the united states is strong, ukraine is vulnerable. and yet the president, without explanation, without justification, withheld $391 million in aid, that would undermine the safety and the security and the ability of ukraine to defend itself. so when the president of the united states says in a phone call that he wants to see an investigation into a political opponent in the context of aid having been withheld, that is what you call a high-pressure tactic. it was an offer that the ukrainian president could not refuse. >> you said in march that the most important condition for moving forward with an impeachment process would be that, quote, public sentiment around impeachment is

bipartisan, unquote. a new poll out this week shows that only 6% of republicans support the impeachment inquiry. you are moving forward with virtually no support from republican voters. and i don't think much support among republican members of congress. this doesn't seem very bipartisan, as of now? >> well, in the midst of an inquiry, we'll see where we get with respect to articles of impeachment at the end of the process. we're going to follow the facts and apply the law, we're going to be guided by the constitution and present the facts to the american people. what we do have, we know, is bipartisan support within the united states house of representatives, at least one republican is on record. there are others who, i believe, will support us moving forward, who haven't come public yet with their perspective. but it's bipartisan within the house of representatives. even more importantly, there are more than 300 national security professionals who work for both republican administrations and democratic administrations, who have publicly said, we support

the impeachment inquiry. these are troubling allegations. there's evidence of wrongdoing. the president solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election. >> you know, sir, that a dozen democrats in your caucus still do not support an impeachment inquiry. the vast majority do, but a dozen don't. and they're in districts that president trump won in 2016. i want you to take a listen to one of them, democratic congresswoman, jeff van drew from new jersey yesterday. >> the odds are very high that it's not going to bear any fruit. the odds are very high that this president will continue to be the president. the people of the united states of america are going to have an election now in a year. they can go ahead in the ballot box and impeach if they desire to do so. >> that's a democratic congressman, sir. how do you respond to congressman van drew? >> well, the house is a separate and coequal branch of government. we don't work for this president or any president. we work for the american people. and we have a constitutional

responsibility to serve as a check and balance on out-of-control executive branch. so we are going to do our duty. and these issues are serious. the security and the national safety best interest of the american people have been subordinated by a president who then evaluated his own personal political interests. we need to investigate that, get to the bottom of it, and present the information to the american people. >> let me ask you, sir. in may, the ukrainian prosecutor general told bloomberg news, quote web quote, we do not have any grounds to any there was any wrongdoing by joe or hunter biden, so these charges that the president keeps pushing have no basis in evidence. but senator harris, kamala harris yesterday said that she probably would not be comfortable with the child of her vice president sitting on the board of a foreign company, such as hunter biden was on. do you agree with her? >> no. at least three different

ukrainian prosecutors have uncovered no wrongdoing with respect to the joe biden situation. it's my understanding that authorities in great britain looked into this situation, found no evidence of wrongdoing, no evidence of wrongdoing has emerged here in the united states of america. and, so, i'll leave it at that. >> all right. thank you so much, hakeem jeffries, congressman and chairman of the democratic caucus, appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, jake. coming up, a handful of republican lawmakers are calling the president's conversation with ukraine's president troubling. could they be the first cracks in the president's support? i'll talk to the president -- one of the president's biggest defenders in the house of representatives, congressman jim jordan of ohio next. and the impeachment inquiry throws a wrench into the 2020 campaign. senator cory booker, democrat of new jersey, will join me, coming up. some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr ultra, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints. great paint, new low price. starting at $29.98. exclusively at the home depot. that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar.

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take a listen. >> this remains deeply troubling and we'll see where it leads, but the first reaction is troubling. >> there's a lot of disturbing allegations. >> i want to say to the president, this is not okay. it is -- that conversation is not okay. >> that's your fellow ohio republican, mike turner there. the list goes on. republican senator ben sasse called it very troubling. republican governors phil scott and charlie baker support the impeachment inquiry. do you have any problem with a u.s. president asking a foreign power to work with his personal attorney and the u.s. attorney to, quote, look into his political rivals? >> a couple of things. i don't have any problem with the call. we've now seen the transcript. the president of ukraine said there was no pressure, he was not pushed. look, if democrats want to impeach because rudy giuliani talked to a couple of ukrainians, good luck with that. i don't think the american people think that's the appropriate course of action. i think they see this for what it is. this is just one of the many

unending attacks the democrats have leveled against this president. the democrats just put us through three years of this phony russia collusion investigation, and now on the heels of that, they come right back with this. we've all seen the transcript. there's nothing there. so i respectfully disagree with my colleagues who think that there needs to be a further inquiry here. >> well, let's talk about the transcript, because in that transcript, president trump says, this is with the ukrainian president, who desperately needed hundreds of millions of dollars of aid, including military aid, to beat back russian aggression, president trump says, "there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that," that's not accurate, but in any case, "so whatever you could do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging, stop the prosecution, if you could look entitle, that would be great." again, the description of the matters is inaccurate, but you don't have any problem with the president of the united states leveraging his power to push a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? >> what i have a problem with is what the democrats are doing. understand what happened here,

jake. you had a bureaucrat who didn't like the president -- >> wait, wait, wait, wait. what are you talking about? >> we know he didn't like the president. >> we don't know that. >> the inspector general says there's arguable political bias. that's washington speak for this guy didn't like the president. >> let's go into that. i have a statement up here. >> let me finish my statement. a bureaucrat says that the president did something wrong on a call. this guy wasn't on the call, someone else told him about the call. so the white house actually released the transcript. we see the transcript, there's nothing there. but the democrats say, we don't care. we're going to move towards impeachment. they don't care about the facts, they don't care about the truth. and you know why we know that? because nancy pelosi did a press conference the day before skpan said she was going to move towards impeachment, the day before she even saw the transcript. that just shows you that these folks are bound and determined to go after this president, no matter what. they put the country through three years of this false trump/russia collusion issue, all the way through. and it was michael cohen didn't do it, the john dean hearing didn't do it for him, the bob

mueller hearing fell apart, the corey lewandowski -- so now they come with this. the latest attack on the president. >> so -- there's a lot you said there. there's a lot of people that would look at what's in the mueller report and say, that's not nothing. >> you watched the mueller hearing. >> let's talk about today. let's talk about today. you just described this individual, this whistle-blower, and i'm really actually surprised, because i've covered whistle-blowers when you were on the committee during the obama years, and there was a lot more reverence for whistle-blowers during that period from republicans than i'm hearing today. you said that he was a bureaucrat who hated the president or disliked the president, biased against the president. there is no evidence of that. let me read from the inspector general's report. it says, "although the icig," that's the intelligence community's inspector general's -- political review unveiled some indicia, such evidence did not change my determination that the complaint related to the urgent concern appears credible. so first of all, that could mean

that he interned for john mccain 20 years ago. we have no idea what it means. second of all, he says that in same sentence, that it did not change his determination that could complaint is credible. that's a trump appointee saying that. >> two ninthings you look at. i'm on the oversight committee. two things you look at to determine the credibility of a so-called whistle-blower. first, did they have firsthand knowledge? and second, what was their motivation? was there some kind of bias? this individual has problems on both of those counts. he had no firsthand knowledge, he heard something from someone who may have heard something from someone -- >> no, no, his sources were firsthand sources. >> but he has no firsthand knowledge. and second, he has a political bias. that should tell us something about this guy who came forward with this claim. and now the democrats are saying, because of this whistle-blower, we're going to impeach the president. i say, look at the transcript, and the transcript gives you no reason to impeach this president, who overturned an election where the people spoke loud and clear. >> you know as well as i do, that you do not need to have

firsthand knowledge to be a whistle-blower. >> well, you don't now because they changed the form. you used to. >> there's no evidence of that. and we looked into this. i know what you're talking about, you're talking about that federalist story. it's not clear that that's accurate. and even so, experts -- >> i've seen the form -- >> -- it has never been true -- it has never been true that you need to have firsthand knowledge to be a whistle-blower. >> but it's something that's critical when you're assessing if they're credible. that's a major determination. >> so listen to this. here's what the complaint says, okay? quote, this is from the whistle-blower. the president used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests, namely, he sought to pressure the ukrainian leader to take actions to help the president's 2020 re-election bid. now, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire, another trump appointee, just like the inspector general was asked by congress about whether or not the transcript matched up with the complaint. here's what he had to say. >> i would say that the whistle-blower's complaint is in alignment with what was released yesterday by the president. so the acting director of

national intelligence says that the transcript backs up what the whistle-blower says. and we also found out that the white house did, in fact, take the transcript and put it in this secret compartmentalized -- compartmented computer server to block anybody else from getting it. so those are the two main charges and they're both true. >> you know why they put it in the classified server? because this administration -- there was a study, jake, right here, done by the senate in 2017, more leaks in the first five months, state security leaks in the first five months of the trump administration than any other administration. they should be putting everything in there, with folks around you who are leaking information. we remember the call to the former prime minister of australia. here's what it says. it is a fact that the trump administration has been besieged by leaks at a level that far exceeds -- >> i recognize you guys don't want the facts coming out. >> no, no, no, you've got to protect from the leaks. if i was the trump administration, i would be putting every communication in this -- >> the leaks are of accurate information. the leaks are of accurate information. you don't like the leaks coming

out -- >> who are you going to believe? the guy who had firsthand knowledge, who was on the call, president zelensky, or the guy -- >> we've seen the transcript! >> that's what i'm saying. the guy who didn't have firsthand knowledge and had a motive against the president. >> according to the acting director of national intelligence, the transcript is in alliance with the whistle-blower complaint. we all see it, zelensky wants military aid and president trump wants him to look into the biased. i can't believe that that's okay with you. >> zelensky says, he wants to drain the swamp. he says, can you do me a favor, can you find out what happened in the 2016 election? >> and then he moves on to the bidens. >> after zelensky says this important sentence. "in addition to that investigation, i want to do all investigations in an open and candid way," only then does the president bring up biden. and my guess is, if you ask the american people, when you look at what happened with joe biden's son. >> what happened with joe biden's son? >> he got paid $50,000, jake

zp? >> jyeah. and the ukrainian prosecutor said there's no evidence of wrongdoing. >> come on. >> what? >> the vice president's son gets paid $50,000 a month and gets hired by a company in an industry that he has no experience in and that's fine, all you folks in the press, no problem here. try taking that message to the american people. when they see the vice president's son getting paid $50,000 a month in a field, in an industry he has no experience in, i kind of want -- i wonder what hunter biden did in those board meetings. did he just look at his phone? check out the sports scores -- that he's getting paid $50,000. and the company that's paying that money is under investigation, guess what? daddy comes running to the rescue. the vice president of the united states -- >> that's not what happened! sir, sir, that's not what happened. the european union, the obama administration -- >> you don't think joe -- >> -- the international monetary fund pro-clean government activists in ukraine thought that the prosecutor was not prosecuting corruption. >> so you're saying joe biden didn't tell ukraine to fire that prosecutor?

i think he did! >> he did, but the guy was -- >> he bragged about it! >> but the guy was not prosecuting anything! that was the problem! the government of the united states and the west -- >> here are the facts -- >> you're not saying -- you're saying, here are the facts, you're not saying -- >> did joe biden tell him to fire the prosecutor? >> because he wasn't going after corruption! he wasn't going after corruption! do you understand what i'm saying? >> was that prosecutor looking into briz ma, the company that had hired joe biden's son -- >> according to the ukrainians, that investigation was dormant at the time. that investigation was dormant at the time. >> did joe biden's son get paid $50,000 a month in a field in an industry that he has no experience in? >> if you want to push a law saying that the children of presidents and vice presidents should not be doing international business deals, i'm all for it. but you're setting a standard that is not being met right now. >> i'm just telling you what happened. joe biden -- >> no, you're not. >> joe biden called him up and said, fire this prosecutor -- >> you're suggesting that biden called for the prosecutor to be fired to protect his son. that's not what happened.

>> and president trump says, can you help me figure out what happened in the 2016 election -- >> you know what, congressman -- >> democrats just put our country through three years of this when there was a false accusation and no evidence of any type of coordination through the trump campaign and -- >> here's the thing. >> the president brings that up and he can't do that, but joe biden can do what he wants. >> i want you to take a listen to vice president mike pence when he was governor, running for vice president, saying that as a principle of the united states that foreign governments are not supposed to get involved in american elections. let's roll that tape. >> y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. >> that once was a principle of the united states. but now -- >> still is. >> no, it's not. because the president is calling for ukraine to investigate his rivals. >> jake, you're missing the fundamental point. >> i'm not missing anything. >> the democrats -- if you want to impeach -- if this is their argument. rudy giuliani talked to an ukrainian -- rudy giuliani, the

private lawyer of the president, so we're going to impeach this president, give me a break. i think the american people are going, really? in light of how -- in light of what this president has been able to do leading in our country, in light of the economic growth, what he's done with our supreme court justices, what he's done with the embassy in jerusalem, a host of things, you really think the american people are going to go, wait a minute, the rudy giuliani, the president's private lawyer had a -- >> i think you came here and leveled a bunch of accusations and allegations about hunter biden -- >> i just said the facts. he got paid $50,000 a month. >> he was paid by a foreign company, yeah. but joe biden was trying to get a prosecutor who was not pursuing corruption fired. >> it's amazing the gymnastics you guys will go through to defend -- >> sir, it's facts! and i would think somebody who has been accused of things in the last year or two would be more sensitive about throwing out wild allegations -- >> i am not throwing out wild allegations. i'm throwing out the facts. >> the prosecutor was not pursuing corruption. that's why the entire west wanted him fired, including

anti-corruption activists in ukraine. i don't understand what you don't get about that? >> i get that! i'm just talking about this specific case. that there's been reporting on. and the facts of that specific case are what he was paid per month, $50,000, like i said, that's more than some of the folks i get the privilege of representing in the fourth district of ohio get paid in a year. he's getting $50,000 a month. the vice president's son. hep got hired for what -- >> the president's daughter, right now, is having all sorts of copy rights granted in foreign countries. that doesn't alarm you? the president's sons -- >> come on. >> -- are doing all sorts of business all over the world. that doesn't alarm you? >> jake, come on. >> what's "come on"? either there's a principle that people should not benefit from their connections or there isn't. >> the previous administration's fbi went after this president. on july 31st -- >> they did a crappy job, then, because they didn't even acknowledge there was an investigation until after the election. >> they spied on two americans associated with president trump's campaign. they put peter strzok in charge

of that -- the guy who said -- >> okay. >> they allowed jim comey to leak documents to get a special counsel. >> sir -- >> they used a dossier to go get a warrant -- >> okay, now we're back to the dossier. >> i'm just saying, that's what happened to president trump. and none of that worked! >> i understand you want to change the subject, but the president was pushing the president of ukraine to investigate a political rival. i cannot believe that that is okay with you. i can't believe it's okay with you. if this is a principle -- >> it's not okay because -- but he didn't do that. >> it's in the transcript. weapon all read it. >> i read the transcript! >> he says that the bidens need to be investigating. >> that's what you guys do. you don't read things in context. the context is that that comes up when zelensky is talking about all investigations, open and candid. >> congressman jordan, we appreciate your passion. thank you so much for being here. new next guest is running to replace president trump in the white house. i'll talk to senator cory booker about democrats' impeachment push months before the first primary votes. stay with us. i get it all the time.

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okay. welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. every democrat running for president now supports the impeachment inquiry into president trump. what is not clear is how that inquiry will affect the democratic field as they try to convince voters they should replace president trump in the white house. joining me now, 2020 democratic presidential candidate, senator cory booker, democrat of new jersey. senator booker, pardon me, you've been calling for impeachment proceedings to begin since late may, saying that the president has obstructed justice, per the mueller report, and refused to comply with congressional investigations. for now, however, house speaker pelosi suggests that the inquiry needs to focus on ukraine. given that you thought that the impeachment inquiry should proceed for other reasons, is she wrong? >> no, she's right, right now. look, this is a real moment in history and we should look at it not through a political eye, but through a patriotic one. we have a president that is undermining his oath to protect and defend the constitution of

the united states. part of that is essential to that is the checks and balances built into our constitution and our form of government. this president wasn't releasing documents. he wasn't allowing subpoenas, people to testify. so this impeachment proceedings process gives us a tremendous amount more leverage with which to make him comply, because he's not above the law, when he does something wrong or that has the implications that we see right now, he should be investigated. he should be held to account. >> so senator, the constitution says that a president can be impeached for, quote, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. can you explain to our viewers what high crimes and misdemeanors the president has committed? >> well, clearly, i mean, from the federalist papers to even past impeachments, we see that defined in a broader sense. and for me it comes down to fundamentally, have they betrayed their office? and i think we see a president right now, what's implicated in that transcript, in the whistle-blower report, is

someone that, frankly, was pursuing their own interest above our national security interests. and someone who has actually visited ukraine, who sat with their military leaders, who have lost their fellow soldiers in a hot war while they're being attacked by the russians, who are currently attacking our country, trying to undermine our democracy. we had a bipartisan agreement that we should give resources and aid to a desperate country. and this president seemed to be willing to hold that up in order to pursue his petty political aspirations. and that is absolutely unacceptable. if this is true, that is an impeachable offense. history will look back on what did we do when a president was willing to trash the constitution, act less like the leader of the free world, and more like a dictator or a thug in using american power to pursue his own personal gain. >> i want to ask you about hunter biden's involvement in

ukraine. and let me state again, for the fifth time on this show, the former ukrainian prosecutor journal, urie lutsenko told bloomberg journal, we do not have any grounds to think there was any wrongdoing of hunter biden. that said, do you think it's acceptable for the child of a president or vice president to be sitting on the board of a foreign company while their parent is conducting foreign policy? >> look, i have a lot of beliefs about ethics rules and the need for our government in the united states to go far further in the rules that we have. but the fact that the republicans right now are trying to use this to distract from the president of the united states, and his own actions, is to me incredible. and so, yeah, i have problems with the way things happen. i have problems with congresspeople coming in, withholding their office and walking right out the door and going to work for lobbying firms. there are a lot of things i see in washington that need changing, and i intend to bring a whole new suite of ethics laws

to the white house when i get there. but right now, we have a crisis in our country. it has been exposed that the president of the united states on potentially more than one occasion is using his office for his own political gain at the expense of national security. urgent national american interests. and this is the thing, you know, we -- i serve on the foreign relations committee, and perhaps it's the most bipartisan committee i sit on, because when we look at the world and the threats against this country, whether it's russian aggression or attempts to undermine our government, you see a lot of bipartisanship there. this is a president that when it comes to foreign relations is violating something that we all agree on. which is that when we look out into the world, we've got to find ways to stand together as americans in defense of our country. this president seems to be violating that, and that is a serious, serious offense that we should be investigating, using an impeachment inquiry. >> i hear what you're saying, but just to put a button on

this, it sounds like you're suggesting that in a booker administration, the child of a president or a vice president, it would in the be okay for them to be joining foreign boards while the president or vice president is conducting foreign policy, as required by the law. am i hearing you incorrectly or hearing you correctly? >> look, i'm watching what's going on with the trump family right now and trump properties and i just find that deeply offensive to just a -- any kind of independent sense of what's honorable, ethical, not to mention in consistency with the emoluments clause. i just do not think that children of presidents, of vice presidents during an administration should be out there doing that. but this -- any implications right now, any whatsoever -- look, joe biden is a statesman. he is truly an honorable man. we may have differences in this campaign, i wouldn't be running if i didn't think i should be president and not him, but i will be standing firmly in

defense of joe biden throughout this process, because this is in no way can besmirch his character, his honor, and his incredible service to this country over decades. so i'm offended by the republicans trying to shift the attention in this -- in what is trump's scandal. this is a trump scandal, and potentially a violation of office. it should in no way affect the vice president in his pursuit of the nomination. >> so let me ask you about your campaign. you are right now just under $200,000 short of reaching the fund-raising goal that you set in order to stay in the race. the clock runs out in 36 hours. might this be the second-to-last day of your campaign? >> well, it could be, but i'll tell you what, what we've seen over the last week has been an avalanche of support. and we have nearly 35,000 donors that have been helping us make this goal. we've raised $1.5 million plus. we've actually already crossed

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american people, then they may be persuasive to some of the republicans. but this is, again, about the oath of office. it's not about politics. this is a very, very dangerous territory. it's not just about something the president may have done. it's about how -- what he is doing. >> house speaker nancy pelosi last night on the politics of impeachment at the tribune festival, as things are about to get even uglier in the nation's capital after an historic week. i want to start with you, congresswoman elissa slotkin, democrat of michigan. there was an editorial saying slotkin may have risked her call with a call for impeachment. president trump is now retweeting attacks on you. are you worried that your support for inquiry, just the process, might end your political career or puts it at risk, at the very least? >> it's just not about that. for me, i had to make a decision

based on the fact that i have been in the national security world my entire life. i'm a former cia officer and pentagon official. and for me, the very basics of this issue turned it for me. we have the president of the free world, you know, the strongest man in the world, calling a junior partner and asking for dirt on an american, on a political opponent. that can't be okay. i don't want a democrat reaching out to china to ask for dirt on a political opponent. that to me just made things very different. it's about a future election, not the past. and it's about our oath of office and protecting the institutions that make up this country. so, what i have tried to say very clearly, to my constituents, is that i hope, whether they agree with me or not, that they say that i did this judiciously. i thought about it, i was compelled to do it based on my oath of office and a sense of integrity. >> david urban, you're a corporate lobbyist and also an adviser to the trump campaign. how -- the trump campaign is already attacking congressmen and women who are supporting the

inquiry. does the argument she made not hold water? >> listen, i applaud her independence. i disagree with her. but i applaud her independence and she thinks she's doing what she thinks is right. i heard speaker pelosi talk about the facts. if the facts were, adam schiff wouldn't have sat on the dais and made up a story. if facts were there, he would have done it. hakeem jeffries said, i support impeachment because of three reasons. the president withhold cash, he pressured the ukrainian president and there's a cover-up. well, the president didn't withhold cash. there's testimony and statements out there from republican senators on the foreign relations committee saying the president and the committee were very concerned about legitimate corruption in ukraine. we're making sure this president was pro-western. in terms of pressure, whether he was pressured or not, the ukrainian president zelensky said, i didn't feel any pressure. and at the time the conversation took place, he didn't even know the money was being withheld at that time. so there could have been no quid pro quo. and finally, the cover-up that

these documents were stored on a tssci secure server, this president has been burned twice in the past with leaks of classified information on mexico and australia and sure, they're stored there. actually, susan rice has said at the same forum in texas, well, the obama administration did likewise. the president released a transcript -- >> rice said it about not about politically sensitive matters, but stuff that was actually national security sensitive. >> but this is not a unique circumstance. this was being covered up. this was in the normal course of business. and if the democrats are going to hang their hat on though these claims, it's completely hollow. >> what do you think, ayesha? >> what's not a unique set of circumstances is that we have a president that's literally obstructing justice at this point in time. if there is nothing to cover up, the question becomes, why does the president keep sending out his talking heads to deliberate this on television as opposed to actually showing all of the receipts for everything that congress has been asking him for for months. >> so that's what this is about? that's what this is about?

>> if there's nothing to cover up, the president should say -- >> so now we know. >> let her talk. >> the president and the administration should say, hey, we are very concerned about some particular national security issue, that maybe some things are classified that we shouldn't know all the details, but they should come forward and say, look, we are concerned, we are protecting and defending the american people in this way. i want you to know that i've got it. here, congress, are the things that you need to understand that's supporting this, but let's all work together to do what's right on bhaft of the american people. >> let's let bill talk. do you think -- do you have any concerns that democrats are getting out over their skis? you're a trump critic, but also a republican. what do you think? >> i think they've made some mistakes and errors of judgment, just what they said. but at the end of the day, the democratic position, as i understand it is, we want to have an impeachment inquiry. we would like to know all the fact asbestos what the president said in different conversations, having released this one transcript, which is pretty damning in my opinion. we want to know what rudy giuliani transmitted on behalf

of the president. giuliani has said many times he kept the president fullry briefed. and the trump administration's position is, we don't want to know! no facts. is it your position that the investigation should go ahead or not? >> congress has oversight. they're a coequal branch of government. >> and you're in favorite of kurt volcker testifying for them and dan coats and rudy giuliani? >> absolutely. i think there is a legitimate oversight responsibility. what i don't think is that when you have rashida tlaib and al green saying, publicly, we don't impeach him, he's going to get re-elected. when you have cory booker on here saying, this is a chance for us to get at. and you hear aisha saying, we're very unhappy with everybody coming up before the congress and saying, we're exerting executive privilege. that's what this is about? and. >> no, i want the congresswoman here and her colleagues to have the opportunity to actually sort through the facts and be able to understand them and explain them back to the american public. and rowan, they're unable to do that, because this administration is blocking, at every juncture, their ability to

access the documents that they should be -- >> so that's what this impeachment is about? >> that's what -- >> not about ukraine. >> let me bring in the congresswoman. it is true that congresswoman rashida tlaib said on her inaugural party, let's impeach the mfer. she didn't use acronyms, but let's impeach him. congressman al green has been in favor of impeaching president trump since the beginning. do those members of your party -- and do the ones who are especially gleeful about this moment, does that undermine the seriousness with which you and other colleagues of yours want to proceed? >> well, listen, i can't speak on behalf of every other member of congress. i know that my district does not want me participating in the kind of vitriol that they see coming out of washington generally, so that's not what i'm going to personally be doing. i can only tell you why, after many, many months of being extremely judicious about this, i feel this is different. i think that the american people are exhausted by the back and forth, even just the basically

conversation that we're having here today. people have lost the thread of what is actually going on. i think we need a very clear process that is an impeachment inquiry that sorts out these facts. that we do it calmly, that we do it cleanly, and we do it efficiently. we focus on the facts at hand and we present that calmly and cleanly to the american people. because i think we've lost that conversation. and people just feel it's purely political. if it were purely political, trust me, this was not something that would have been loved in my district. >> so when adam schiff sits there, congresswoman, and reads something that doesn't economist. >> i think he was intending it to be a parody. >> it's not a parody, jake. he's the chairman. >> i'm not justifying it -- >> what about the transcript that actually exists. >> why didn't he just read that? >> this is pathetic. >> no, what's pathetic is -- >> did chairman make mistakes -- i bet he did! >> it isn't about chairman

schiff. it's about the president of the united states. >> why didn't he just read the transcript? >> do you defend the president's behavior? >> i'm defending the truth, bill. >> and do you think president trump's behavior was proper? do you think president trump's behavior was proper? >> is it proper for adam schiff to read something that's not true. >> no, he should not have done it. >> i'm willing to say adam schiff should not have done that. >> but what do you think about the actual transcript? >> so what did he do that's wrong, bill? >> he said "do me a favor," that's what he did. it's completely illegal. he withheld money -- >> he didn't withhold money! you're making up your own facts. >> yes, he did! >> you know why he withheld money? >> the reality is this is all lies. and because of the lack of judgment -- >> unfortunately the congressman -- >> you're not even bright enough to know that it's lies, so then offered up this not even transcript, but essentially this summary of a call that then makes the point that he was wrong. and you all are still going to sit around and try to gaslight americans. >> we only have 15 seconds left. i want to ask the

congresswoman -- >> you want facts, let's have the facts. >> are you concerned about this being what the house of representatives -- >> this is what people associate with impeachment hearings, which is why it is up to us to present something that is different, strategic, clear, and efficient and let the facts speak for themselves. >> let's hope it is strategic, clear, and efficient and we actually get to the bottom of it all and there's no rush to judgment on anything. thank you all for being here. let's appreciate it. what are the next few months going to be like in washington? a look ahead at a historic and tumultuous time. please stay with us. whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy.

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merits of the whistle-blower complaint and we, as citizens, need to do our duty to listen, to be informed, to consider the evidence, to be worthy of this democracy that we love. fareed zakaria is next. this is "gps: the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we'll begin today's show where this wild week began, with britain's supreme court finding boris johnson's actions unlawful. and with the u.s. house of representatives launching an impeachment inquiry into the actions of president trump. >> impeachment for that? >> i'll discuss both in an exclusive interview with britain's former prime minister, david cameron. then we'll dig deeper into the other nation at the center of the